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Amazes me how so many countries can build pipelines to move oil but will not do the same to move water from areas with too much water to places with a lack of water.

Not enough profit in water.

Diffence is that people are willing to pay for oil and not for water. If water was as profitable as oil everybody would pipe it.

In the future we are all going to be paying more for water, everywhere. If the species lasts awhile and keeps increasing in numbers, we'll be paying for air too, but that will take a little longer. We've already been paying for land for centuries, and already the sea seems to be in the process of being carved up (eg, the South China Sea).

A guy in Beijing was selling cans of clean air. Not sure if it was a joke, a publicity stunt, or an ominous foreshadowing of a bleak future where only the well-to-do will be able to afford to breathe.

Capitalism means private ownership of the means of production, but what do you call it when it becomes private ownership of the means of existence?

The Chinese are putting billions of dollars into new water pipelines, pumping systems, irrigation networks, and reservoirs.

It's more work than oil pipelines because the volume of water needing to be moved is much larger.

With water about 10000 times cheaper than oil it's usually not economic enough to pump it anywhere.
Also, oil pipelines are dangerous only when there is an accident, whereas when you change the flow of water, you always screw up the source environment in the long term.

China built the Grand Canals to move water as HFCAMPO lamented. If you think the 3 Gorges Dam was an environmental impact, wait until India decides to start desalinating sea water on a national scale. Potable water in India is a luxurious commodity.

There are plenty of places that flood annualy because of heavy rains. This water can be piped to other dry regions for irrigation while preventing the annual floods.